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RE: Evaluation Criteria for Markup Languages

• From: "Cox, Bruce" <Bruce.Cox@USPTO.GOV>
• To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
• Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:43:16 -0400

Yes, John, we took that work into account.  We even looked at the work of the Universal Postal Union, which, while fascinating in its own right, was of little help.

Bruce B Cox
Director, Policy and Standards Division, OCIO, USPTO

-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org] On Behalf Of John Cowan
Sent: 2011 September 6, Tuesday 16:14
To: Cox, Bruce
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re:  Evaluation Criteria for Markup Languages

Cox, Bruce scripsit:

> As Michael said, it's a question of finding the level of abstraction 
> that everyone can agree to for exchange purposes while still 
> supporting the local needs of a national office.  It's challenging.

Have you looked at OASIS XNAL 2.0
<http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/ciq.html> for the name and address parts?  It should be powerful enough for anyone.

-- 
John Cowan   cowan@ccil.org  http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Most languages are dramatically underdescribed, and at least one is dramatically overdescribed.  Still other languages are simultaneously overdescribed and underdescribed.  Welsh pertains to the third category.
        --Alan King

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  • RE: Evaluation Criteria for Markup Languages
    • From: "Cox, Bruce" <Bruce.Cox@USPTO.GOV>
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    • From: "David Lee" <dlee@calldei.com>
  • RE: Evaluation Criteria for Markup Languages
    • From: "Cox, Bruce" <Bruce.Cox@USPTO.GOV>
  • Re: Evaluation Criteria for Markup Languages
    • From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>